JK Rowling had heaped the praise on Stephen King, but he simply replied to her with ‘trans women are women’.
In response, she tweeted: ‘I’ve always revered Stephen King, but today my love reached – maybe not Annie Wilkes levels – but new heights.
However, her message was hardly given a chance, after she deleted it when one of King’s followers asked him to clarify his stance on trans issues, following the re-tweet, and he replied: ‘Yes. Trans women are women.’And you better believe her 180 hasn’t gone unnoticed by punters on social media. Taking issue with the phrasing, Rowling wrote: ‘”People who menstruate”. I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?’
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